David Roberts
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Director, Urban Studies Program
Department of Geography & Planning and Urban Studies Program, Faculty of Arts & Science
Disciplinary Area: Social SciencesConsiderations for Undegraduate Research: Course and Curriculum Design Funding
As part of an international research team on a Transatlantic Partnership Grant, Professor David Roberts is exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic strengthened community-based actions within black neighbourhoods in Toronto. To engage undergraduate students and provide them with the research training required, Professor Roberts supported the creation of a course URB438: Advanced Urban Research Project. Through this course, students gained training in qualitative case study and community-based research methodologies and, ultimately, used their training to develop a case study on a local neighbourhood and contribute to the findings of the international research team. This not only provided undergraduate students with meaningful training in different research methodologies, but also helped to build capacity for this research team.